Flush-switch support.



No. 663,039. Patented Dec. 4, I900. C. G. PERKINS. FLUSH SWITCH SUPPORT.

{App at on filed Jun 28 1900 (lo Model.) /%'9' M6232 6J5 as.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES G. PERKINS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE PERKINS ELECTRIC SWITCH MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FLUSH-SWITCH SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,039, dated December 4, 1900.

Application filed June 28, 1900. Serial No. 21,961. (No modeLl To all whom, it may concern: tapped for receiving the screws which retain Be it known that 1, CHARLES G. PERKINS, a the switch-receptacles. The outer faces of citizen of the United States, residing at I-lartthese lugs are a little below the outer edge of ford, in the county of Hartford and State of the frame and-those opposite each other form Connecticut, have invented certain new and a pair for each receptacle.

useful Improvements in Flush-Switch Sup- The receptacle show-n is a circular porceports, of which the following is a specificalain cup 6, having insulated passages 7 for tion. the circuit-wires that are to be connected with This invention relates to the means emthe switch mechanisms placedin therecepta- 1o ployed for supporting flush electrical snapole. In diametrically opposite sides of the switches either singly or in gangs. walls of this receptacle and extending from The object of the invention is to simplify the bottom nearly to the top are recesses S. the method of and to reduce the cost of the These recesses are shaped to receive the opmeans for supporting flush switches. posite lugs that extend inwardly from the 15 The invention resides in a frame or box so side walls of the frame, and they extend as constructed and a switch receptacle or recepnear to the top of the receptacle as the distacles so shaped that after the frame or box tauce that the outer faces of the lugs are behas been fixed in position in the wall of the low the outer edge of the frame, so that the building the receptacle or receptacles conedge of the frame and the edge of the recepzo taining the switch mechanisms may be contacle will be substantially flush. Perfora- 7o Veniently located and firmly secured in place tions 9 are made from the top downwardly to without the employment of the holding-plate the recesses through the sections 10 of the renow commonly used. ceptacle-walls that are above the recesses.

The invention is illustrated in the accom- The receptacle, with the switch mechanism, is

25 panying drawings in connection with a frame put into the frame with the lugs extending designed foragang of three flush rotary snapinto the recesses, and then screws 11 are switches. passed through the perforations 9 into the Figure 1 is a plan View showing a portion tapped perforations in the lugs for holding of the cover-plate, the frame, and one of the the receptacle on the lugs in the frame.

30 receptacles without'the switch mechanisms. After the building-wall has been finished, as Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken through by plastering, around one of these frames the the frame and the empty receptacle. Fig. 3 receptacles are placed in posit-ion on the lugs is a plan of the frame. Fig. etis an edge view and secured by the screws passed through of the frame with a portion broken away. the receptacles into the lugs. With this con- 5 Fig. 5 is a side view of the receptacle, and struction it is easy to place receptacles con- Fig. 6 is a bottom view of the receptacle. taining the switch mechanisms in place or to The frame 1, which is that part designed to remove them from place. be permanently set in a wall of the building, It is not necessary to employ a holdingmay be cast to shape or may be bent or plate for supporting the receptacles, nor is it 40 stamped from sheet metal. This part maybe necessary to employ independent ears for at- 0 arranged forone, two, three,or more switches. taching the receptacles to the frame or to a The sides may be of any suitable width and holding-plate. The design of the frame is the bottom maybe open or closed, as desired. simple, and the shape of the receptacle is From the sides 2, near each end 3, of the such that it can be cheaply manufactured.

45 oblong frame for three switches that is shown There is no danger of breaking or damaging there project wings 4B, which are perforated one of these frames when the wall is being for the passage of the screws employed to finished about it, and it is not possible to hold the frame in position in the wall, and exwrongly set one of the receptacles in the tending inwardly from the opposite sides of frame.

50 the frame are lugs 5, that are drilled and After the receptacles have been placed in the frame an ornamental cover-plate 12 is placed over the frame and held in place by the handles 13 in the usual manner.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of a metallic frame having lugs projecting inwardly therefrom with the outer faces of the lugs in a plane below the outer edge of the frame and an insulatingreceptacle having recesses that open from the back edge of the receptacle and that are adapted to receive the lugs, substantially as specified.

2. The combination of a metallic frame having lugs projecting inwardly therefrom with the outer faces of the lugs in a plane below the outer edge of the frame, an insulatingreceptacle having recesses that open from the back edge of the receptacle and that are adapted to receive the lugs, and screws pass ing through perforations in the receptacle- H. R. WILLIAMs, O. E. BUCKLAND. 

